by Ann Landi | Oct 15, 2017 | Under the Radar
As a kid growing up in Chicago, Tm Gratkowski believed he was destined to become a hockey player. “I was on skates at age three and playing hockey by the time I was five,” he says. “We grew up on the lake, and I would put on my skates at the house and walk down to the...
by Ann Landi | Oct 9, 2017 | Features
It’s curious to me that more women than men responded to the call for a third round-up of self-portraits on Vasari21. That’s possibly because there are more female members than male (though I can’t tell you the exact ratio), possibly because women traditionally spend...
by Ann Landi | Oct 8, 2017 | Under the Radar
Though she now lives in Santa Fe, at a safe remove from severe tropical storms, Paula Roland knows a thing or two about hurricanes. “All my life it was ‘Hurricane’s coming! School’s out!’” she recalls of her childhood in Biloxi, MS. “You cover the windows, pile up the...
by Ann Landi | Oct 8, 2017 | Poetry
By Lynn Levin (After Rembrandt’s The Angel Prevents the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany) With Rembrandt, it is Isaac in the foreground, bound upon the kindling, splayed across his face, his father’s hand, his body splashed with light,...
by Ann Landi | Oct 1, 2017 | Features
Dealers Tell Us What They Look for in Representing Someone New What makes a gallery decide to take on a new artist? To make a long- or short-term commitment? What goes through a dealer’s head when she is looking at (or looking for) art to show, either in solo or group...
